Life with the Quinns

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Celebrating Papa's Birthday

We are very blessed to have Papa around on his birthday. The whole family celebrated this special celebration at our favorite Japanese restaurant, Omikoshi. Here are a few pictures from Papa's birthday dinner.

Julianna and the birthday boy
Outside Omikoshi (Julianna loves the fishes!)
Silly faces!

4th of July Weekend

This post is long overdue but I thought I would share pictures from our wonderful 4th of July weekend in Texas. We went to visit Mamere and Papa and checked out their new house. We had a lot of fun!

Front of the new house

Julianna in the backyard

She is all grown up! "Sniff!"

With Mamere

Julianna and her two grandmothers

My family at the beach in Galveston, Texas

Water baby!

We also had a wonderful time at the Sienna Plantation Water Park. The water park is located inside the Sienna Plantation Subdivision and it is supposedly the biggest private water park in the US. It was awesome! We had so much fun!

Jeff under the big bucket of water

My family

Julianna, Uncle Alex, Daddy and Mommy

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Celebrating life in June

I didn't get to post anything for the month of June because of various reasons, mostly because I had been very busy!

I thought I'd sum up the month of June by sharing pictures from birthday celebrations we had this month.

We celebrated my mom's birthday on June 10...hard to believe she is now 54 years old!

Alex turned 32 on June 15.

Pretty Amelia is now one year old! We had so much fun at her party.

We also welcomed our newest MIDL baby, Allison Claire McCormac, on June 16!

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Kindergarten Program

Julianna had a blast during her Kindergarten program today. She did very well singing with her friends, she made Mommy and Daddy very proud!

A short clip from Julianna's graduation program

After the program, the Kindergartners and their proud parents had a great picnic at the school playground. Julianna had so much fun at the water slides! We are very proud of what she has accomplished this school year!

Julianna with McKay...waiting for the celebration to start

Enjoying the water slide

Waiting in line with a fellow Kindergartner

Water limbo rock!

Daddy with a very wet Julianna

My "not so small anymore" baby!

with her teacher, Mrs. Phillips

with her classmate Sofia

After the school festivities, we went out to P.F. Chang's to celebrate Julianna's graduation. She was very happy with all her gifts, but the flowers from Uncle Alex really made her day.

The proud graduate and her flowers

Julianna with Nona, Tita, and a very sleepy Uncle Alex

Proud Parents!

Getting ready to open her presents!

This video clip was too precious that I just had to share it. On our way home today, Julianna was happily playing with the My Little Pony Teapot Palace that my sister gave her for a graduation present while singing her version of "Think of Me" from Phantom of the Opera. I will have to apologize for the poor video quality, I had to hide the camera because she really hates it when I try and take videos of her. The improvised lyrics makes it really special. She also uses "Yes!" instead of "Bravo!" which I thought was really amusing. She sings the melody like she hears it on the version (movie soundtrack) of the Phantom of the Opera that she listens to at home. She can really carry a tune, hopefully someday she will learn the right lyrics to the song. This video is for Julianna's Mamere!

Pump it Up Party for Nicholas

We had fun at the Nicholas' party (Jennifer's son) at Pump it Up last May 10. Julianna was one of the few girls at the party but she had fun playing with Sammie and the other boys.

Enjoy the pictures!

Watching the safety video (or pretending to...)

Off they go!

Sue on the climbing wall

The Mommys are having fun too!

Sue and Sammie

The reason why Jennifer missed her son's party, she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy!

Video of Sammie and Julianna playing air hockey at Pump it Up!

Monday, May 12, 2008

Mother's Day Weekend Pictures

Last Saturday, we tried to get professional pictures of Julianna done. Below are some pictures taken during the "photo shoot".

Ever-shy Julianna

Pretty Julianna

Playing with Audrey

Who me?

Me?

You!

Pretty Audrey

With Frank and Papa

Is it ever possible to keep little girls still?

I miss you Mamere!

Mother's Day 2008

I went off like a bandit with all my presents yesterday! I got presents from everyone in my family, but the most memorable present of all was a handmade card and some fridge art from Julianna. She had made them at school on Friday and had kept them in her backpack until it was time for her to give it to me yesterday. She was so proud of herself and I was sooo proud of her. She makes being a mommy a very special blessing indeed.